42nd Infantry Battalion War Diary (1915-1919)
Author: Canadian Expeditionary Force
Keywords: Canada; War; Great War; Militia; CEF; CEFSG; World War One; WWI; WW1; War Diary; 42nd Infantry Battalion; 42nd Battalion; 3rd Division; 7th Infantry Brigade; Grandson Michael; Michael Thierens; rlaughton
Publisher: Canadian Expeditionary Force
Language: English
Book contributor: Richard Laughton on behalf of Michael Thierens
Collection: opensource
Notes: Adapted from Library and Archives Canada (LAC): From the start of the First World War, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units were required to maintain a daily account of their "Actions in the Field". This log was called a "War Diary". The LAC database contains the digitised War Diaries of CEF infantry, artillery and cavalry units, Brigade, Division and Corps commands and support units such as Railway and Forestry troops. These are not personal diaries. War Diaries rarely record information about individual men. This is because War Diaries were never intended to document individual service and also due to the size of the unit to which a single War Diary referred. The information found in the War Diaries varies greatly, and is dependent on the ability of the junior officer responsible for writing the diary on a day-to-day basis. Because of this variation, one may find a detailed account of a battalion's involvement in a battle, a description of training exercises, or simply a sentence describing the weather. Please note that the LAC database does NOT contained the transcribed version of the war diary as presented here. The transcriptions of the War Diaries are being made by members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group. For further information see here: http://cefresearch.com/matrix/War%20Diaries/index.htm
Description
The Transcribed War Diary of the 42nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
This transcription duplicates as closely as possible the actual War Diary of the 42nd Battalion, a project completed by Michael Thierens from Erica, Netherlands.
Michael Thierens is the "Project Leader" of the "War Diary Transcription Project" of the "Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group".
Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
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| Identifier: | 42ndInfantryBattalionWarDiary1915-1919 |
| Licenseurl: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
| Mediatype: | texts |
| Coverage: | Great War 1914-1919 |
| Identifier-access: | http://archive.org/details/42ndInfantryBattalionWarDiary1915-1919 |
| Identifier-ark: | ark:/13960/t00017f78 |
| Ppi: | 300 |
| Ocr: | ABBYY FineReader 8.0 |
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